How to Configure Tomcat 7 Eclipse Luna IDE for JEE Developers

Step 1. Install Java 

Step 2. Download Tomcat from web site to a location where you want to install Tomcat. for eg: C:xxxxapache-tomcat-7.0.57

Step 3. Create environment variables 

JAVA_HOME=C:Program FilesJavajdk1.8.0_25

JRE_HOME=C:Program FilesJavajre1.8.0_25

Step 4. Download eclipse and unzip at a proper location C:xxxxeclipse-jee-luna-R-win32-x86_64

Step 5: Follow the remaining steps below to configure tomcat in eclipse

Double click on the server and select the server location -> to use Tomcat installation.

Step 6. Configure Users and Groups for Tomcat

Open tomcat-users.xml file under C:xxxxapache-tomcat-7.0.57conf and add the user and the roles.

 <role rolename=“manager-gui”/>
 <role rolename=“admin-gui”/>
 <user password=“tomcat” roles=“manager-gui,admin-gui” username=“tomcat”/>

Step 7. Start the server. The admin console url is http://localhost:8080/